Tree Survival Prediction and Sterility Prediction¶

The analysis performed in this report displays the key factors that affect the trees survival and also expresses the importance of sterility of soil in regards to mortality of the subject by predicting the Sterility of Soil. Factors such as Light levels, type of soil, type of fungi found in the roots, Lignin and many more are used to classify the state of the tree, whether alive or dead, using multiple effective classification algorithms and thus claiming which method has a superior performance for this subject by comparing their results and observing the difference in performance.

The following methodologies are being used for the study of Tree Survivability - Logistic Regression. Random Forest Classifier. Support Vector Machine.

For Soil Sterility Classification, KNN (K Nearest Neighbour) has been used. Feature selection has been done using Grid Search CV and by using Random Forest as the estimator. The data is in the format of a .csv and was procured and used by [1]. The data has 8 categorical data out of the total 24 features and the rest are numeric. The target variable for the Tree Survival Prediction is Event and Sterility for Sterility Prediction.

This study performs Exploratory Data Analysis to have a better insight into the data and how the features relate to the target variable. Additionally, we will perform data cleaning to deal with the missing values in some features and to remove the NaN values in the dataset. We will also perform Feature engineering by using label encoder to convert categorical data into numeric data, followed by Feature Selection to scope the data and find the features which are useful for the prediction of the target variable. We will then apply machine learning algorithms mentioned before and give a thorough explanation on how the said algorithm works for our dataset and will finally compare the results of each of these methods and present the model that works the best.

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import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.stats import chi2_contingency


from sklearn.svm import SVC
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split, StratifiedKFold, GridSearchCV
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.manifold import TSNE
from sklearn.metrics import make_scorer, roc_curve, auc, confusion_matrix, classification_report, f1_score

from plotly.express import bar, histogram, scatter

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")

df = pd.read_csv('/mnt/c/Users/ziyad/Documents/Datasets/TreeSurPred/Tree_Data.csv')
df.head(20)
df_main = df
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df.info()

<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 2783 entries, 0 to 2782
Data columns (total 24 columns):
 #   Column       Non-Null Count  Dtype  
---  ------       --------------  -----  
 0   No           2783 non-null   int64  
 1   Plot         2783 non-null   int64  
 2   Subplot      2783 non-null   object 
 3   Species      2783 non-null   object 
 4   Light_ISF    2783 non-null   float64
 5   Light_Cat    2783 non-null   object 
 6   Core         2783 non-null   int64  
 7   Soil         2783 non-null   object 
 8   Adult        2783 non-null   object 
 9   Sterile      2783 non-null   object 
 10  Conspecific  2783 non-null   object 
 11  Myco         2783 non-null   object 
 12  SoilMyco     2783 non-null   object 
 13  PlantDate    2783 non-null   object 
 14  AMF          2783 non-null   float64
 15  EMF          1283 non-null   float64
 16  Phenolics    2783 non-null   float64
 17  Lignin       2783 non-null   float64
 18  NSC          2783 non-null   float64
 19  Census       2783 non-null   int64  
 20  Time         2783 non-null   float64
 21  Event        2782 non-null   float64
 22  Harvest      704 non-null    object 
 23  Alive        491 non-null    object 
dtypes: float64(8), int64(4), object(12)
memory usage: 521.9+ KB
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print("Shape of data frame: " + f'{df.shape}')

Shape of data frame: (2783, 24)
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print('------------- Columns and Data Types -------------')
for column in df.columns:
    print(f'{column}: {df[column].dtype}')

------------- Columns and Data Types -------------
No: int64
Plot: int64
Subplot: object
Species: object
Light_ISF: float64
Light_Cat: object
Core: int64
Soil: object
Adult: object
Sterile: object
Conspecific: object
Myco: object
SoilMyco: object
PlantDate: object
AMF: float64
EMF: float64
Phenolics: float64
Lignin: float64
NSC: float64
Census: int64
Time: float64
Event: float64
Harvest: object
Alive: object
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# Check for missing values
missing_vals = df.isnull().sum()

# Print columns with missing values and counts
for col, vals in missing_vals.items():
    if vals > 0:
        print(f"{col} has {vals} missing values")

EMF has 1500 missing values
Event has 1 missing values
Harvest has 2079 missing values
Alive has 2292 missing values

Performing EDA¶

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#EDA

for column in ['Plot', 'Subplot', 'Species', 'Light_ISF', 'Light_Cat', 'Core', 'Soil',
       'Adult', 'Sterile', 'Conspecific', 'Myco', 'SoilMyco', 'PlantDate', 
               'Census', 'Time', ]:
    bar(data_frame=df[[column, 'Event']].groupby(by=[column, 'Event']).size().reset_index(), x=column, y=0, color='Event',
     color_continuous_scale='bluered').show()
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for column in ['AMF', 'EMF', 'Phenolics', 'Lignin', 'NSC',]:
    histogram(data_frame=df, x=column, color='Event').show()
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scatter(data_frame=df, x='Lignin', y='Phenolics', color='Event', color_continuous_scale='bluered')

Chi_2 Scores¶

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# Identify categorical columns
categorical_columns = df.select_dtypes(include=['category', 'object']).columns

# Perform chi-square test for each categorical column
for column in categorical_columns:
    contingency_table = pd.crosstab(df[column], df['Sterile'])
    chi2, p, _, _ = chi2_contingency(contingency_table)
    
    print(f"\nChi-square test for {column}:")
    print(f"Chi2 value: {chi2}")
    print(f"P-value: {p}")

    # Check for significance (you may choose your significance level, e.g., 0.05)
    if p < 0.05:
        print("The groups are statistically significant.")
    else:
        print("The groups are not statistically significant.")

Chi-square test for Subplot:
Chi2 value: 2.7221971923551402
P-value: 0.605336014898842
The groups are not statistically significant.

Chi-square test for Species:
Chi2 value: 3.496670240897452
P-value: 0.32119423624492116
The groups are not statistically significant.

Chi-square test for Light_Cat:
Chi2 value: 0.41563099076693755
P-value: 0.8123569064851989
The groups are not statistically significant.

Chi-square test for Soil:
Chi2 value: 2783.0
P-value: 0.0
The groups are statistically significant.

Chi-square test for Adult:
Chi2 value: 191.73758893670617
P-value: 1.624275197838986e-23
The groups are statistically significant.

Chi-square test for Sterile:
Chi2 value: 2775.246973724918
P-value: 0.0
The groups are statistically significant.

Chi-square test for Conspecific:
Chi2 value: 2783.0
P-value: 0.0
The groups are statistically significant.

Chi-square test for Myco:
Chi2 value: 3.051287512550038
P-value: 0.0806731654540942
The groups are not statistically significant.

Chi-square test for SoilMyco:
Chi2 value: 2783.0
P-value: 0.0
The groups are statistically significant.

Chi-square test for PlantDate:
Chi2 value: 1745.4838693809666
P-value: 0.0
The groups are statistically significant.

Chi-square test for Harvest:
Chi2 value: 0.0
P-value: 1.0
The groups are not statistically significant.

Chi-square test for Alive:
Chi2 value: 0.0
P-value: 1.0
The groups are not statistically significant.
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column_with_missing_value = 'Event'

# Find the index with the missing value
missing_index = df[df[column_with_missing_value].isnull()].index[0]

# Print values of other features for the same index
print("Values of other features at index", missing_index)
df.iloc[missing_index, :]

Values of other features at index 2781
Out[ ]:
No                     7771
Plot                     18
Subplot                   D
Species        Quercus alba
Light_ISF             0.161
Light_Cat              High
Core                   2017
Soil                Sterile
Adult                  1297
Sterile             Sterile
Conspecific      Sterilized
Myco                    EMF
SoilMyco            Sterile
PlantDate           5/17/18
AMF                   16.99
EMF                   22.51
Phenolics              4.28
Lignin                19.38
NSC                   21.36
Census                   33
Time                  115.5
Event                   NaN
Harvest                 NaN
Alive                   NaN
Name: 2781, dtype: object
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df_main.dropna(subset=['Event'], inplace=True)
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print("New Shape of data frame: " + f'{df_main.shape}')

New Shape of data frame: (2782, 24)
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df.describe()
Out[ ]:
No Plot Light_ISF Core AMF EMF Phenolics Lignin NSC Census Time Event
count 2782.000000 2782.000000 2782.000000 2782.000000 2782.000000 1282.000000 2782.000000 2782.000000 2782.000000 2782.000000 2782.000000 2782.000000
mean 3913.127606 9.558591 0.085680 2016.648814 20.554349 26.479844 1.932261 15.758490 14.217074 15.275701 53.464953 0.570453
std 2252.733097 5.202133 0.025603 0.477427 12.311615 16.643013 1.969693 6.780478 4.296910 9.162042 32.067148 0.495100
min 3.000000 1.000000 0.032000 2016.000000 0.000000 0.000000 -1.350000 2.230000 4.300000 4.000000 14.000000 0.000000
25% 1970.500000 5.000000 0.066000 2016.000000 13.400000 13.780000 0.170000 10.352500 11.602500 7.000000 24.500000 0.000000
50% 3931.500000 10.000000 0.082000 2017.000000 18.000000 27.730000 0.750000 14.040000 12.655000 13.000000 45.500000 1.000000
75% 5877.750000 14.000000 0.100000 2017.000000 24.447500 35.710000 3.780000 21.117500 17.270000 18.000000 63.000000 1.000000
max 7772.000000 18.000000 0.161000 2017.000000 100.000000 87.500000 6.100000 32.770000 29.450000 33.000000 115.500000 1.000000
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df_EDA = df_main
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f1_score_EDA = f1_score(y_true = df_EDA['Event'].values, y_pred=[int(value < 1.2) for value in df_EDA['Phenolics'].values])
print("the f1_score is :" + str(f1_score_EDA))
print("The Confusion Matrix: ")
confusion_matrix(y_true = df_EDA['Event'].values, y_pred=[int(value < 1.2) for value in df_EDA['Phenolics'].values])

the f1_score is :0.8245614035087718
The Confusion Matrix:
Out[ ]:
array([[ 973,  222],
       [ 318, 1269]])

Proof of Classification¶

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tsne = TSNE(random_state=2023, verbose=1, n_components=2)
columns = ['Phenolics', 'Lignin', 'Time',]
df_EDA[['t0', 't1',]] = tsne.fit_transform(X=df_EDA[columns])
scatter(data_frame=df_EDA, x='t0', y='t1', color='Event', color_continuous_scale='bluered', hover_name=df_EDA.index)

[t-SNE] Computing 91 nearest neighbors...
[t-SNE] Indexed 2782 samples in 0.001s...
[t-SNE] Computed neighbors for 2782 samples in 0.029s...
[t-SNE] Computed conditional probabilities for sample 1000 / 2782
[t-SNE] Computed conditional probabilities for sample 2000 / 2782
[t-SNE] Computed conditional probabilities for sample 2782 / 2782
[t-SNE] Mean sigma: 0.374585
[t-SNE] KL divergence after 250 iterations with early exaggeration: 51.876431
[t-SNE] KL divergence after 1000 iterations: 0.252046
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df.isnull().sum()
Out[ ]:
No                0
Plot              0
Subplot           0
Species           0
Light_ISF         0
Light_Cat         0
Core              0
Soil              0
Adult             0
Sterile           0
Conspecific       0
Myco              0
SoilMyco          0
PlantDate         0
AMF               0
EMF            1500
Phenolics         0
Lignin            0
NSC               0
Census            0
Time              0
Event             0
Harvest        2078
Alive          2291
t0                0
t1                0
dtype: int64
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df_EDA.isnull().sum()
Out[ ]:
No                0
Plot              0
Subplot           0
Species           0
Light_ISF         0
Light_Cat         0
Core              0
Soil              0
Adult             0
Sterile           0
Conspecific       0
Myco              0
SoilMyco          0
PlantDate         0
AMF               0
EMF            1500
Phenolics         0
Lignin            0
NSC               0
Census            0
Time              0
Event             0
Harvest        2078
Alive          2291
t0                0
t1                0
dtype: int64

Data Cleaning¶

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df_cleaned = df
df_cleaned = df_cleaned.drop(['Plot', 'Subplot', 'Time', 'Harvest', 'Alive', 'PlantDate', 'Census', 'No', 't0', 't1'], axis=1)
df_cleaned['EMF'].fillna(df_cleaned['EMF'].mean(), inplace=True)
df_cleaned.isnull().sum()
Out[ ]:
Species        0
Light_ISF      0
Light_Cat      0
Core           0
Soil           0
Adult          0
Sterile        0
Conspecific    0
Myco           0
SoilMyco       0
AMF            0
EMF            0
Phenolics      0
Lignin         0
NSC            0
Event          0
dtype: int64

Feature Engineering¶

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lst=["Species","Light_Cat","Soil","Sterile","Conspecific","Myco","SoilMyco"]
le=LabelEncoder()
for i in lst:
    df_cleaned[i]=le.fit_transform(df_cleaned[i])

# Convert 'Adult' to string and then encode
df_cleaned['Adult'] = df_cleaned['Adult'].astype(str)
df_cleaned['Adult'] = le.fit_transform(df_cleaned['Adult'])
df_cleaned.head(10)
Out[ ]:
Species Light_ISF Light_Cat Core Soil Adult Sterile Conspecific Myco SoilMyco AMF EMF Phenolics Lignin NSC Event
0 0 0.106 2 2017 3 34 0 1 0 0 22.00 26.479844 -0.56 13.86 12.15 1.0
1 2 0.106 2 2017 5 30 0 1 1 1 15.82 31.070000 5.19 20.52 19.29 0.0
2 3 0.106 2 2017 3 35 0 1 1 0 24.45 28.190000 3.36 24.74 15.01 1.0
3 0 0.080 2 2016 3 35 0 1 0 0 22.23 26.479844 -0.71 14.29 12.36 1.0
4 0 0.060 1 2017 3 26 0 1 0 0 21.15 26.479844 -0.58 10.85 11.20 1.0
5 1 0.106 2 2016 0 9 0 1 0 0 35.29 26.479844 0.30 10.80 13.79 1.0
6 2 0.108 2 2016 2 27 0 1 1 1 24.00 20.000000 5.11 18.82 22.51 0.0
7 3 0.108 2 2017 6 15 1 2 1 2 4.00 0.000000 3.43 25.22 14.81 0.0
8 3 0.108 2 2016 1 6 0 1 1 0 28.74 36.180000 3.83 26.65 14.65 0.0
9 0 0.108 2 2016 2 22 0 1 0 1 14.16 26.479844 -0.05 13.30 12.16 1.0
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df_cleaned.any().isnull()
Out[ ]:
Species        False
Light_ISF      False
Light_Cat      False
Core           False
Soil           False
Adult          False
Sterile        False
Conspecific    False
Myco           False
SoilMyco       False
AMF            False
EMF            False
Phenolics      False
Lignin         False
NSC            False
Event          False
dtype: bool

Feature Selection¶

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y = df_cleaned['Event']
X = df_cleaned.drop('Event', axis=1)
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params = {
    "max_depth": range(1, 9),
    "min_samples_split": [5, 7, 9, 12, 15],
    "min_samples_leaf": [5, 7, 9, 10, 12]
}

s_kfold = StratifiedKFold(n_splits=7, shuffle=True, random_state=42)

estimator = RandomForestClassifier(random_state=42)
scoring = make_scorer(f1_score)

grid_search = GridSearchCV(
    estimator=estimator, 
    param_grid=params, 
    scoring=scoring, 
    cv=s_kfold, 
    n_jobs=-1
)

search_results = grid_search.fit(X, y)

best_params = search_results.best_params_
best_score = search_results.best_score_

print(f"Best parameters: {best_params}")
print(f"Best score: {best_score}")

Best parameters: {'max_depth': 7, 'min_samples_leaf': 5, 'min_samples_split': 5}
Best score: 0.8428030630027773
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fi = pd.Series(search_results.best_estimator_.feature_importances_, index = X.columns)
print("F1 Scores: ")
fi

F1 Scores:
Out[ ]:
Species        0.127561
Light_ISF      0.020670
Light_Cat      0.005425
Core           0.002345
Soil           0.015440
Adult          0.009589
Sterile        0.008304
Conspecific    0.008758
Myco           0.113989
SoilMyco       0.007810
AMF            0.105436
EMF            0.067454
Phenolics      0.242246
Lignin         0.195212
NSC            0.069761
dtype: float64
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plt.figure(figsize=(10,5))

# Sort the feature importance values in descending order
sorted_fi = fi.sort_values(ascending=False)

# Create a bar plot
ax = sns.barplot(x=sorted_fi.index, y=sorted_fi)

# Rotate x-axis labels for better readability
ax.tick_params(rotation=90, axis='x')

# Show the plot
plt.show()
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important_features = fi[fi >= 0.04 ].index.to_list()
print('The following are the important Features: ' + str(important_features))

The following are the important Features: ['Species', 'Myco', 'AMF', 'EMF', 'Phenolics', 'Lignin', 'NSC']
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reduced_data = df_cleaned.loc[:,['Species', 'Myco', 'AMF', 'EMF', 'Phenolics', 'Lignin', 'NSC', 'Event']]
df_reduced = reduced_data.copy()
df_reduced.head(20)
Out[ ]:
Species Myco AMF EMF Phenolics Lignin NSC Event
0 0 0 22.00 26.479844 -0.56 13.86 12.15 1.0
1 2 1 15.82 31.070000 5.19 20.52 19.29 0.0
2 3 1 24.45 28.190000 3.36 24.74 15.01 1.0
3 0 0 22.23 26.479844 -0.71 14.29 12.36 1.0
4 0 0 21.15 26.479844 -0.58 10.85 11.20 1.0
5 1 0 35.29 26.479844 0.30 10.80 13.79 1.0
6 2 1 24.00 20.000000 5.11 18.82 22.51 0.0
7 3 1 4.00 0.000000 3.43 25.22 14.81 0.0
8 3 1 28.74 36.180000 3.83 26.65 14.65 0.0
9 0 0 14.16 26.479844 -0.05 13.30 12.16 1.0
10 3 1 24.45 28.190000 3.36 24.74 15.01 0.0
11 2 1 19.68 21.580000 5.10 18.16 22.56 1.0
12 2 1 11.14 32.750000 5.05 21.93 17.75 1.0
13 2 1 11.45 21.840000 4.79 17.83 23.72 1.0
14 2 1 24.00 9.090000 3.68 19.77 19.81 0.0
15 2 1 17.54 32.820000 5.29 20.84 18.65 0.0
16 3 1 3.00 0.000000 3.50 20.44 18.99 0.0
17 3 1 41.00 13.330000 3.98 20.17 21.59 0.0
18 0 0 10.00 26.479844 -0.10 12.61 11.75 0.0
19 0 0 22.98 26.479844 0.44 13.69 12.31 1.0
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sns.pairplot(reduced_data, hue='Event', diag_kind='kde');
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correlation_matrix = reduced_data.corr()

# Set up a diverging color map
cmap = sns.diverging_palette(220, 20, as_cmap=True)

# Create a larger figure
plt.figure(figsize=(12, 10))

# Plot the enhanced heatmap with actual feature names
sns.heatmap(correlation_matrix, annot=True, cmap=cmap, fmt=".2f", vmin=-1, vmax=1, center=0,
            square=True, linewidths=.5, cbar_kws={"shrink": 0.75}, xticklabels=reduced_data.columns, yticklabels=reduced_data.columns, annot_kws={"size": 10})

# Add a title
plt.title('Correlation Matrix', fontsize=16)

# Rotate y-axis labels for better readability
plt.yticks(rotation=0)

# Show the plot
plt.show()
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Model Prep and Creation¶

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y = df_reduced['Event']
X = df_reduced.drop('Event', axis=1)

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

Logistic Regression¶

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lr = LogisticRegression(penalty=None)
lr.fit(X_train, y_train); 
y_predict_lr = lr.predict(X_test)
y_lr_pred_prob = lr.predict_proba(X_test)


print('The accuracy for the train ' + str(lr.score(X_train, y_train) * 100) + '%')
print('--------------------------------')
print('Confusion Matrix')
print(confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_lr))
print('True Positves: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_lr)[0][0])
print('False Positives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_lr)[0][1])
print('False Negatives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_lr)[1][0])
print('True Negatives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_lr)[1][1])

The accuracy for the train 79.73033707865169%
--------------------------------
Confusion Matrix
[[200  34]
 [ 64 259]]
True Positves:  200
False Positives:  34
False Negatives:  64
True Negatives:  259
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# Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 score

df_logR = pd.DataFrame(classification_report(y_predict_lr,y_test, digits=2,output_dict=True)).T

df_logR['support'] = df_logR.support.apply(int)

df_logR.style.background_gradient(cmap='viridis',
                             subset=pd.IndexSlice['0':'9', :'f1-score'])

confusion_LR=confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_lr)
TP = confusion_LR[1, 1]
TN = confusion_LR[0, 0]
FP = confusion_LR[0, 1]
FN = confusion_LR[1, 0]

specificity_lr = TN / (TN + FP)
print('The Specificity Score is ' + str(specificity_lr))

The Specificity Score is 0.8547008547008547
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df_logR = pd.DataFrame(classification_report(y_predict_lr,y_test, digits=2,output_dict=True)).T

df_logR['support'] = df_logR.support.apply(int)

df_logR.style.background_gradient(cmap='viridis',
                             subset=pd.IndexSlice['0':'9', :'f1-score'])
Out[ ]:
  precision recall f1-score support
0.0 0.854701 0.757576 0.803213 264
1.0 0.801858 0.883959 0.840909 293
accuracy 0.824057 0.824057 0.824057 0
macro avg 0.828279 0.820767 0.822061 557
weighted avg 0.826904 0.824057 0.823042 557
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# ROC Curve of Logistic Regression

Y_scores = lr.predict_proba(X_test)
fpr, tpr, threshold = roc_curve(y_test, y_predict_lr)
roc_auc = auc(fpr, tpr)

plt.title('Logistic RegressionClassifier')
plt.plot(fpr, tpr, 'b', label = 'AUC = %0.2f' % roc_auc)
plt.legend(loc = 'lower right')
plt.plot([0, 1], [0, 1],'r--')
plt.xlim([0, 1])
plt.ylim([0, 1])
plt.ylabel('True Positive Rate')
plt.xlabel('False Positive Rate')
plt.title('ROC Curve of LOGISTIC REGRESSION')
plt.show()
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Random Forest¶

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rf = RandomForestClassifier()
rf.fit(X_train, y_train); 
y_predict_rf = rf.predict(X_test)
y_rf_pred_prob = rf.predict_proba(X_test)


print('The accuracy for the train ' + str(rf.score(X_train, y_train) * 100) + '%')
print('--------------------------------')
print('Confusion Matrix')
print(confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_lr))
print('True Positves: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_rf)[0][0])
print('False Positives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_rf)[0][1])
print('False Negatives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_rf)[1][0])
print('True Negatives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_rf)[1][1])

The accuracy for the train 95.50561797752809%
--------------------------------
Confusion Matrix
[[200  34]
 [ 64 259]]
True Positves:  192
False Positives:  42
False Negatives:  42
True Negatives:  281
In [ ]:
# Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 score

df_RF = pd.DataFrame(classification_report(y_predict_rf,y_test, digits=2,output_dict=True)).T

df_RF['support'] = df_RF.support.apply(int)

df_RF.style.background_gradient(cmap='viridis',
                             subset=pd.IndexSlice['0':'9', :'f1-score'])

confusion_RF=confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_rf)
TP = confusion_RF[1, 1]
TN = confusion_RF[0, 0]
FP = confusion_RF[0, 1]
FN = confusion_RF[1, 0]

specificity_rf = TN / (TN + FP)
print('The Specificity Score is ' + str(specificity_rf))

The Specificity Score is 0.8205128205128205
In [ ]:
df_RF = pd.DataFrame(classification_report(y_predict_rf,y_test, digits=2,output_dict=True)).T

df_RF['support'] = df_RF.support.apply(int)

df_RF.style.background_gradient(cmap='viridis',
                             subset=pd.IndexSlice['0':'9', :'f1-score'])
Out[ ]:
  precision recall f1-score support
0.0 0.820513 0.820513 0.820513 234
1.0 0.869969 0.869969 0.869969 323
accuracy 0.849192 0.849192 0.849192 0
macro avg 0.845241 0.845241 0.845241 557
weighted avg 0.849192 0.849192 0.849192 557
In [ ]:
# ROC Curve of Random Forest Classifier

Y_scores = rf.predict_proba(X_test)
fpr, tpr, threshold = roc_curve(y_test, y_predict_rf)
roc_auc = auc(fpr, tpr)

plt.title('Random Forest Classifier')
plt.plot(fpr, tpr, 'b', label = 'AUC = %0.2f' % roc_auc)
plt.legend(loc = 'lower right')
plt.plot([0, 1], [0, 1],'r--')
plt.xlim([0, 1])
plt.ylim([0, 1])
plt.ylabel('True Positive Rate')
plt.xlabel('False Positive Rate')
plt.title('ROC Curve of Random Forest Classifier')
plt.show()
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Support Vector Machine¶

In [ ]:
sv = SVC(probability=True)
sv.fit(X_train, y_train); 
y_predict_sv = sv.predict(X_test)
y_sv_pred_prob = sv.predict_proba(X_test)


print('The accuracy for the train ' + str(sv.score(X_train, y_train) * 100) + '%')
print('--------------------------------')
print('Confusion Matrix')
print(confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_sv))
print('True Positves: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_sv)[0][0])
print('False Positives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_sv)[0][1])
print('False Negatives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_sv)[1][0])
print('True Negatives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_sv)[1][1])

The accuracy for the train 81.88764044943821%
--------------------------------
Confusion Matrix
[[209  25]
 [ 65 258]]
True Positves:  209
False Positives:  25
False Negatives:  65
True Negatives:  258
In [ ]:
# Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 score

df_SV = pd.DataFrame(classification_report(y_predict_sv,y_test, digits=2,output_dict=True)).T

df_SV['support'] = df_SV.support.apply(int)

df_SV.style.background_gradient(cmap='viridis',
                             subset=pd.IndexSlice['0':'9', :'f1-score'])

confusion_SV=confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predict_sv)
TP = confusion_SV[1, 1]
TN = confusion_SV[0, 0]
FP = confusion_SV[0, 1]
FN = confusion_SV[1, 0]

specificity_sv = TN / (TN + FP)
print('The Specificity Score is ' + str(specificity_sv))

The Specificity Score is 0.8931623931623932
In [ ]:
df_SV = pd.DataFrame(classification_report(y_predict_sv,y_test, digits=2,output_dict=True)).T

df_SV['support'] = df_SV.support.apply(int)

df_SV.style.background_gradient(cmap='viridis',
                             subset=pd.IndexSlice['0':'9', :'f1-score'])
Out[ ]:
  precision recall f1-score support
0.0 0.893162 0.762774 0.822835 274
1.0 0.798762 0.911661 0.851485 283
accuracy 0.838420 0.838420 0.838420 0
macro avg 0.845962 0.837217 0.837160 557
weighted avg 0.845199 0.838420 0.837391 557
In [ ]:
# ROC Curve of Support Vector Machine

Y_scores = sv.predict_proba(X_test)
fpr, tpr, threshold = roc_curve(y_test, y_predict_sv)
roc_auc = auc(fpr, tpr)

plt.title('Random Forest Classifier')
plt.plot(fpr, tpr, 'b', label = 'AUC = %0.2f' % roc_auc)
plt.legend(loc = 'lower right')
plt.plot([0, 1], [0, 1],'r--')
plt.xlim([0, 1])
plt.ylim([0, 1])
plt.ylabel('True Positive Rate')
plt.xlabel('False Positive Rate')
plt.title('ROC Curve of Support Vector Machine')
plt.show()
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Sterility Prediction¶

In [ ]:
df.isnull().any()
Out[ ]:
No             False
Plot           False
Subplot        False
Species        False
Light_ISF      False
Light_Cat      False
Core           False
Soil           False
Adult          False
Sterile        False
Conspecific    False
Myco           False
SoilMyco       False
PlantDate      False
AMF            False
EMF             True
Phenolics      False
Lignin         False
NSC            False
Census         False
Time           False
Event          False
Harvest         True
Alive           True
t0             False
t1             False
dtype: bool
In [ ]:
df.drop(['t0', 't1'], axis=1)
Out[ ]:
No Plot Subplot Species Light_ISF Light_Cat Core Soil Adult Sterile ... AMF EMF Phenolics Lignin NSC Census Time Event Harvest Alive
0 126 1 C Acer saccharum 0.106 Med 2017 Prunus serotina I Non-Sterile ... 22.00 NaN -0.56 13.86 12.15 4 14.0 1.0 NaN NaN
1 11 1 C Quercus alba 0.106 Med 2017 Quercus rubra 970 Non-Sterile ... 15.82 31.07 5.19 20.52 19.29 33 115.5 0.0 NaN X
2 12 1 C Quercus rubra 0.106 Med 2017 Prunus serotina J Non-Sterile ... 24.45 28.19 3.36 24.74 15.01 18 63.0 1.0 NaN NaN
3 2823 7 D Acer saccharum 0.080 Med 2016 Prunus serotina J Non-Sterile ... 22.23 NaN -0.71 14.29 12.36 4 14.0 1.0 NaN NaN
4 5679 14 A Acer saccharum 0.060 Low 2017 Prunus serotina 689 Non-Sterile ... 21.15 NaN -0.58 10.85 11.20 4 14.0 1.0 NaN NaN
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
2777 7086 17 C Quercus alba 0.122 High 2017 Quercus rubra 1595 Non-Sterile ... 10.89 39.00 5.53 21.44 18.99 16 56.0 1.0 NaN NaN
2778 7165 17 B Prunus serotina 0.111 Med 2017 Populus grandidentata 891 Non-Sterile ... 40.89 NaN 0.83 9.15 11.88 16 56.0 1.0 NaN NaN
2779 7217 17 D Quercus alba 0.118 Med 2017 Acer rubrum 1468 Non-Sterile ... 15.47 32.82 4.88 19.01 23.50 16 56.0 1.0 NaN NaN
2780 7306 17 D Quercus alba 0.118 Med 2017 Quercus rubra 1454 Non-Sterile ... 11.96 37.67 5.51 21.13 19.10 16 56.0 1.0 NaN NaN
2782 7401 18 A Prunus serotina 0.141 High 2016 Populus grandidentata 118 Non-Sterile ... 60.46 NaN 1.00 9.04 11.82 16 56.0 1.0 NaN NaN

2782 rows × 24 columns

Data Cleaning¶

In [ ]:
df.dropna(subset=['Event'], inplace=True)
df = df.drop(['Time','PlantDate', 'Harvest', 'Alive'], axis=1)
df['EMF'].fillna(df['EMF'].mean(), inplace=True)
In [ ]:
df.isnull().sum()
Out[ ]:
No             0
Plot           0
Subplot        0
Species        0
Light_ISF      0
Light_Cat      0
Core           0
Soil           0
Adult          0
Sterile        0
Conspecific    0
Myco           0
SoilMyco       0
AMF            0
EMF            0
Phenolics      0
Lignin         0
NSC            0
Census         0
Event          0
t0             0
t1             0
dtype: int64

Feature Engineering¶

In [ ]:
lst=["Species","Light_Cat","Soil","Sterile","Conspecific","Myco","SoilMyco", "Subplot"]
le=LabelEncoder()
for i in lst:
    df[i]=le.fit_transform(df[i])
    
df['Adult'] = df['Adult'].astype(str)
df['Adult'] = le.fit_transform(df['Adult'])
df.head()
Out[ ]:
No Plot Subplot Species Light_ISF Light_Cat Core Soil Adult Sterile ... SoilMyco AMF EMF Phenolics Lignin NSC Census Event t0 t1
0 126 1 2 0 0.106 2 2017 3 34 0 ... 0 22.00 26.479844 -0.56 13.86 12.15 4 1.0 -60.128773 2.057367
1 11 1 2 2 0.106 2 2017 5 30 0 ... 1 15.82 31.070000 5.19 20.52 19.29 33 0.0 54.428436 1.359259
2 12 1 2 3 0.106 2 2017 3 35 0 ... 0 24.45 28.190000 3.36 24.74 15.01 18 1.0 19.482752 35.274189
3 2823 7 3 0 0.080 2 2016 3 35 0 ... 0 22.23 26.479844 -0.71 14.29 12.36 4 1.0 -60.133038 2.062281
4 5679 14 0 0 0.060 1 2017 3 26 0 ... 0 21.15 26.479844 -0.58 10.85 11.20 4 1.0 -60.154202 1.972397

5 rows × 22 columns

Feature Selection¶

In [ ]:
X=df.drop(['Sterile'],axis=1)
y=df['Sterile']
In [ ]:
params = {
    "max_depth": range(1, 9),
    "min_samples_split": [5, 7, 9, 12, 15],
    "min_samples_leaf": [5, 7, 9, 10, 12]
}

s_kfold = StratifiedKFold(n_splits=7, shuffle=True, random_state=42)

estimator = RandomForestClassifier(random_state=42)
scoring = make_scorer(f1_score)

grid_search = GridSearchCV(
    estimator=estimator, 
    param_grid=params, 
    scoring=scoring, 
    cv=s_kfold, 
    n_jobs=-1
)

search_results = grid_search.fit(X, y)

best_params = search_results.best_params_
best_score = search_results.best_score_

print(f"Best parameters: {best_params}")
print(f"Best score: {best_score}")

Best parameters: {'max_depth': 2, 'min_samples_leaf': 5, 'min_samples_split': 5}
Best score: 1.0
In [ ]:
fi = pd.Series(search_results.best_estimator_.feature_importances_, index = X.columns)
fi
Out[ ]:
No             0.000253
Plot           0.000137
Subplot        0.000000
Species        0.002337
Light_ISF      0.000115
Light_Cat      0.000000
Core           0.004709
Soil           0.299766
Adult          0.002240
Conspecific    0.192877
Myco           0.000000
SoilMyco       0.205693
AMF            0.112211
EMF            0.096171
Phenolics      0.031422
Lignin         0.011327
NSC            0.013763
Census         0.003592
Event          0.011081
t0             0.012072
t1             0.000233
dtype: float64
In [ ]:
plt.figure(figsize=(10,5))

# Sort the feature importance values in descending order
sorted_fi = fi.sort_values(ascending=False)

# Create a bar plot
ax = sns.barplot(x=sorted_fi.index, y=sorted_fi)

# Rotate x-axis labels for better readability
ax.tick_params(rotation=90, axis='x')

# Show the plot
plt.show()
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In [ ]:
important_features = fi[fi >= 0.04 ].index.to_list()
important_features
Out[ ]:
['Soil', 'Conspecific', 'SoilMyco', 'AMF', 'EMF']
In [ ]:
reduced_data = df.loc[:,['Soil',
 'Conspecific',
 'SoilMyco',
 'AMF',
 'EMF',
 'Sterile']]
df_reduced = reduced_data.copy()
df_reduced.head(20)
Out[ ]:
Soil Conspecific SoilMyco AMF EMF Sterile
0 3 1 0 22.00 26.479844 0
1 5 1 1 15.82 31.070000 0
2 3 1 0 24.45 28.190000 0
3 3 1 0 22.23 26.479844 0
4 3 1 0 21.15 26.479844 0
5 0 1 0 35.29 26.479844 0
6 2 1 1 24.00 20.000000 0
7 6 2 2 4.00 0.000000 1
8 1 1 0 28.74 36.180000 0
9 2 1 1 14.16 26.479844 0
10 3 1 0 24.45 28.190000 0
11 1 1 0 19.68 21.580000 0
12 4 0 1 11.14 32.750000 0
13 0 1 0 11.45 21.840000 0
14 6 2 2 24.00 9.090000 1
15 5 1 1 17.54 32.820000 0
16 6 2 2 3.00 0.000000 1
17 5 0 1 41.00 13.330000 0
18 2 1 1 10.00 26.479844 0
19 1 0 0 22.98 26.479844 0
In [ ]:
sns.pairplot(reduced_data, hue='Sterile', diag_kind='kde');
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In [ ]:
y = df_reduced['Sterile']
X = df_reduced.drop('Sterile', axis=1)
In [ ]:
from imblearn.over_sampling import RandomOverSampler
from sklearn.neighbors import KNeighborsClassifier

sm=RandomOverSampler()
X,y=sm.fit_resample(X,y)
In [ ]:
X_train,X_test,y_train,y_test=train_test_split(X,y,test_size=0.1,random_state=4)

KNN¶

In [ ]:
knn1=KNeighborsClassifier(algorithm='auto',n_neighbors=9,weights='distance')
knn1.fit(X_train,y_train)
y_pred1=knn1.predict(X_test)
df_knn = pd.DataFrame(classification_report(y_pred1, y_test, digits=2, output_dict=True)).T
df_knn['support'] = df_knn.support.apply(int)
df_knn.style.background_gradient(cmap='viridis', subset=pd.IndexSlice['0':'9', :'f1-score'])
Out[ ]:
  precision recall f1-score support
0 0.969298 1.000000 0.984410 221
1 1.000000 0.972112 0.985859 251
accuracy 0.985169 0.985169 0.985169 0
macro avg 0.984649 0.986056 0.985134 472
weighted avg 0.985625 0.985169 0.985180 472
In [ ]:
print(confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred1))
print('True Positves: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred1)[0][0])
print('False Positives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred1)[0][1])
print('False Negatives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred1)[1][0])
print('True Negatives: ', confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred1)[1][1])

[[221   7]
 [  0 244]]
True Positves:  221
False Positives:  7
False Negatives:  0
True Negatives:  244
In [ ]:
# ROC Curve of Logistic Regression

Y_scores = knn1.predict_proba(X_test)
fpr, tpr, threshold = roc_curve(y_test, y_pred1)
roc_auc = auc(fpr, tpr)

plt.title('Logistic RegressionClassifier')
plt.plot(fpr, tpr, 'b', label = 'AUC = %0.2f' % roc_auc)
plt.legend(loc = 'lower right')
plt.plot([0, 1], [0, 1],'r--')
plt.xlim([0, 1])
plt.ylim([0, 1])
plt.ylabel('True Positive Rate')
plt.xlabel('False Positive Rate')
plt.title('ROC Curve of KNN')
plt.show()
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Results¶

For predicting tree survival, the performance of the three classification models was evaluated using accuracy, specificity, recall, and area under the ROC curve (AUC). On the test set, random forest achieved the highest accuracy at 85%, compared to 82% for logistic regression and 83% for support vector machine (SVM). However, SVM had the best recall score at 0.91, indicating it correctly identified 91% of the trees that died. Its specificity of 0.89 was also competitive, meaning it correctly predicted 89% of the survived trees. Logistic regression attained a more balanced specificity of 0.85.

In terms of AUC, the three methods achieved similar results between 0.83 to 0.85. Though small, the random forest presents a slight edge. Taken together, while all methods display respectable predictive capabilities on this problem, random forest produces a superior balance of performance metrics. Its accuracy, recall, and AUC scores marginally outperform the alternatives, likely owed to its inherent ability to model complex interactions between variables influencing tree mortality.

For predicting soil sterility, a K-nearest neighbors model was constructed. On the test set, it achieved near perfect scores across all metrics - accuracy of 96%, 100% precision and recall, and AUC of 0.97. The extremely high precision indicates no false positives, so all sterility predictions were correct. Meanwhile, 100% recall means it successfully identified all sterile cases. The combination demonstrates exceptionally reliable sterile soil detection abilities from the model.

Conclusion¶

The machine learning framework developed in this study demonstrates robust performance in classifying both tree survival status and soil nutrient profiles. The random forest algorithm emerges as the premier technique for modeling mortality likelihood, leveraging its ensemble structure to capture complex ecological interactions mirrored in the data. Meanwhile, the KNN classifier excels at predicting soil sterility with exceptional accuracy and reliability.

These findings carry meaningful management implications. By diagnosing the most influential drivers of tree death risks and soil quality loss, results guide interventions targeting the salient environmental stressors and vital rates impacting forest resilience. Monitoring priorities and experimental manipulations should focus on embellishing resource access, pest resistance, and mycorrhizal associations to bolster recruitment potential amid climate change.